US5894642AExpiredUtility
Hook and loop hanger for shower curtain and liner
Priority: Mar 12, 1998Filed: Mar 12, 1998Granted: Apr 20, 1999
Est. expiryMar 12, 2018(expired)· nominal 20-yr term from priority
Inventors:Stephanie A. Eberhardt
Y10T24/51A47H 2201/01A47H 13/16A47H 2201/02A47K 3/38
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Claims
Abstract
A flexible elongated combination shower curtain and liner hanger device with reinforced apertures in an upper region for hanging the hanger element from a shower rod by hooks. The lower region of the hanger device has loop strips on both sides for fastening of the shower curtain and the shower liner to a horizontal rod by hook strips on their upper edges. The hanger device can be clear or colored to match the color of the shower curtain and shower liner.
Claims
exact text as granted — not AI-modifiedI claim:
1. A combination of a hanger device having a shower curtain, a shower liner, and a horizontally disposed rod, said combination comprising: a flexible rectangular sheet generally commensurate in length with a horizontally disposed rod in a shower facility; said sheet having an upper region and a lower region; a series of spaced-apart apertures in said upper region of said sheet; an elongated strip of loop material on each side of said sheet in said lower region; a shower curtain having a strip of hook material at its upper edge of its rear surface; and a shower liner having a strip of hook material at its upper edge of its front surface; whereby said hanger device is attached to said horizontally disposed rod by hooks passing through said apertures of said hanger device, and said shower curtain and said shower liner being attached to said hanger device by cooperative fastening of said loop material strips of said hanger device to said hook material strips of said shower curtain and said shower liner.
2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said series of apertures include reinforcing means.
3. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said hanger device is made of a clear material selected from the group consisting of transparent, translucent and pellucid.
4. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said hanger device is made of a flexible material selected from the group consisting of a cloth fabric, plastic and plastic coated cloth fabric.
5. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said hanger device has a color selected from the group consisting of white and colored to match the color of the shower curtain and shower liner.
6. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said hanger device has a horizontal length greater than, equal to or smaller than the horizontal length of said shower curtain and said shower liner.Cited by (0)
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